There is as wide a range of thinking about books as anything else. I'm a bibliophile and make my living mostly from writing. I collect books as others may collect Parkers, with a discriminating sense of value. I also distinguish one book from another because of limited space. I was here when Peter Johnson was going down, and emphasized as much as others could from afar from seeing Parker Pages snaps of him in his wheelchair.
As a result of this exchange, I took his book out for another read. I think I may have handled it more tenderly, not from what is in it or how it was written but because of sentiments, friendships and appreciation expressed here of the man. It's there for all its boosterism only because it was my first Parker book. Sentiment.
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